Albatron Launches Three PCI Low-Profile GeForce 8 Video Cards

[wolf]

The thing about these that gets me excited is the PhysX. If nVidia unlocks PhysX support for the rest of their 8 series cards soon, these would be a perfect drop in for use as nothing other than a PhysX card.

physx and folding

 

[Mussels]

the only problem is that vista cant handle two video drivers at the same time (XP could, but XP crashed a lot when you did it lol) so if you do this, you need an Nvidia primary card, and the cards all need to share the one driver (meaning no betas, without modding first)

to be honest i want one physx sounds awesome, and folding on the side too.

 

[newtekie1]

the only problem is that vista cant handle two video drivers at the same time (XP could, but XP crashed a lot when you did it lol) so if you do this, you need an Nvidia primary card, and the cards all need to share the one driver (meaning no betas, without modding first)

to be honest i want one physx sounds awesome, and folding on the side too.

I've had my 3850 and 9800GTX in my Vista machine together and it handled it just fine.

 

[Mussels]

I've had my 3850 and 9800GTX in my Vista machine together and it handled it just fine.

could you get both cards to start at once? i've always had vista throw an error saying the driver could not start, and only the primary card works. I did it less than 4 hours ago with a radeon 2600xt to see if anything had changed in SP1, but it didnt work.

 

[MikeX]

ahh

those people with P3 and 2 can finally play WoW and Watch HD content. I wish these pci8600gt can do sli, that would be awsomm

 

[candle_86]

they could actully do SLI its the lack of the interface and drivers to support PCI SLI for the current gen lol. Also the improvements wouldn't be that great as data would have to use the PCI bus anyway, but it is possible to use the PCI bus as an SLI link as all slots are tired together on that massive 133mb/s bus lol

 

[roberto888]

That would be funny if they supporting SLI. i have 5 PCI Slots. I could use them in 3-way SLI.LOLBut i think its inpossible.

 

[Mussels]

But i think its inpossible.

Me fail english? that unpossible!

There doesnt appear to be an SLI bridge in the pictures, and as PCI slots cant really communicate between themselves like PCI-E, i'd say SLI is a no.

http://www.albatron.com.tw/public/Images/News/EN/2008/news20080709_3.gif

1,200 in 3dm06 from an 8600GT? yeah these cards might be limited.

 

[Baum]

ah i think i will get one as my pci bus only handles one slot on my epia and everything else ist connected seperately to the NB, even the onboard gpu is agp 2x but 3dmark doesn't start at all ;-)

I will use them in my beamer rig to get vid's and old games running, if they are not tooo expensive

 

[JrRacinFan]

There doesnt appear to be an SLI bridge in the pictures, and as PCI slots cant really communicate between themselves like PCI-E, i'd say SLI is a no.

http://www.albatron.com.tw/public/Images/News/EN/2008/news20080709_3.gif

1,200 in 3dm06 from an 8600GT? yeah these cards might be limited.

Actually, software SLi could be possible. Worth it? I highly doubt. Whoever would purchase one in single wouldn't be looking for the latest and greatest in gaming anyways.

PS: My Asus with onboard ATi 200 Express scores a little over 1k.

 

[Ketxxx]

It has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

 

[JrRacinFan]

It has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

Actually, these would be good for those NanoITX boards that have only one PCI slot and using onboard VGA.

 

[Mussels]

Physx
F@H
mobos with no AGP/PCI-E (ITX boards tend to have one PCI slot only)

 

[mdm-adph]

It has to be said.... what the hell is the point? Apart from making it a bit easier for someone who had a VGA BIOS flash go wrong and needs a PCI VGA to reflash, I cant see any point in these.

For all those people out there using old Dells (from back when they used to strip the AGP port off the motherboards) who suddenly want to start gaming, but don't want to spend $300+ on a new computer.

 

[Ketxxx]

Still seems very very little point to me, those cards will probably retail at what? £80-100? Not worth it IMO.

 

[Mussels]

Still seems very very little point to me, those cards will probably retail at what? £80-100? Not worth it IMO.

lets hope its less than that.

Remember that these are half height too, and thats a whole different market. you have a half height PCI card with bluray decoding and HDMI out - thats a lot of power in a small space, for the HTPC market.

for the desperate gamer market, consider it this way: its still going to be a lot cheaper than buying an all new PC, and if its for media/light gaming, then it'll do fine (by light, i mean CSS everything on low)

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

If the cards are under $100 then I would probably be in for the cheapest, as a backup card for bios flashing etc, as my Rage IIC is getting a bit dusty.